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I physically timed it out on a split stay at AKV and Poly several years ago to end the argument on another forum, I posted travel times between the resorts and all 4 parks, even posted my transport -wait- times. The responses were either, outright denial or continued disbelief, moving the goal posts to various other th
The Food options, particularly QS - also absolutely suck - might be the worst on property. You CAN walk to lots of places, which is nice, but not when you just want to chill at your resort, or need to bring food back with you and its cold already.
They aren't if you know how to max them. We use them to fill other containers, end up not having to buy pop, gatoraid, mixer, etc for the entire trip, often 2 weeks. They might be for a lot of people though, I could see that.
I'll Build on this - Animal Kingdom Lodge - is closer to three of the four parks than any of the MK area resorts, and the transportation is better. If you average your travel time out on a trip, and you use WDW transport and like to hit all the parks -- AKV is better than the MK resorts.
Yea - I get those folks, I vehemently disagree with them, because I want to stay everywhere and just want to maximize my points to do so. But I do get it. And man, if you think the 2 bedrooms are an issue now, have you seen how many cabins they are building at lakeshore lodge !?!?!
Double tapping right back ! But the thought of using $160+ poly points (let alone direct points) at AKL or SSR hurts my heart, vs using my $60 - $90 AKV points at poly which warms my soul.
Ok that's really interesting, but that's because SSR is an insane price direct. I didn't realize we were talking direct sales - I don't think I'd recommend anyone buy SSR direct unless it was heavily incentivized. Here's my math on a Poly vs SSR resale contract, and I've used pretty generous math to favor Poly here hig
Oh that's a REALLY good point going forward. Dang. But wait - what does a Poly resale contract look like in say 2057? I know that's quite the horizon. But would you still be able to use that at the legacy resorts, if they have all been resold with new restrictions ? Oh man, what do AKV or SSR, or extended OKW look like
Yours is also a very fair perspective. Though again, I'd really like to see data on who actually carries their contract the full term, because that ultimately matters. What percentage of users, or resale users, etc actually keep it to full length. Because if you aren't going to, that makes that calculation moot. I don'
That's actually rather funny - I was just writing elsewhere how we avoided BWV because of the lure and the hype around BCV. This year we gave it a shot, and we really enjoyed it. Like, it has a great vibe. Stormalong Bay is great an all, but the Boardwalk is just, well its vibing. The only complaint we had is the refil
Yup, that's true - but again, not really that big of consideration for me/us. And, the value of those points at any point in the future is quite unknown, as is the comparison to any other resort. Again, I'll point to BCV or several of the soon expiring contracts as examples of this.
I appreciate the mathing on this, but I think the expiry date and the direct purchase price completely skews the value proposition. Though if you are buying direct regardless, I guess that doesn't matter :) Limit this calculation to the next 10 years or 20 years for instance, and the math completely changes. And let be
Skip a year - honestly my best advice. Look - if you are buying DVC, and it actually makes sense for you, you have to be going to Disney fairly often. Every year, every other year, maybe more than once a year. This was the case for us. And we did some basic math. At the time we were staying in moderate resorts and goin
We are Niagara Fallsians ourselves ! We also honeymooned at WDW, a little later than you though in 2012 ;) If you are heading down to DL I guess you wont be driving like we do to WDW. Still I always think its funny for people like us to head from one of the biggest tourist mechas in the world, to another. And every tim
Hello all ! Excited for the new forums, because I needed somewhere MORE on the internet to spend time discussing, thinking about, planning, and sharing with others about Disney vacations :) But really, looking forward to seeing all the DVCFan folks here, and this way I can tell Paul more directly when he's wrong ;) Hop
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